Dissident Peace - Anthony Dest

Dissident Peace

Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2025
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-4299-7 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
In 2016, the Peace Accords between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army (FARC–EP) and the Colombian government promised to bring an end to over 50 years of armed conflict. Yet, despite widespread international acclaim and heavy investments in the peace process, war continued. In this book, Anthony Dest provides a rigorous reassessment of the terms of peacebuilding through an ethnography of ongoing struggles for autonomy, based on over fifteen years of research and activism in Colombia. By questioning the potential for peace under the aegis of the state, Dissident Peace opens up critical space from which to imagine more radical forms of peace.


From the coca fields of southwestern Colombia to the negotiating table in Cuba, Dissident Peace brings the contradictions of peacebuilding and organizing to life. Throughout the book, Dest locates contemporary violence within longer histories of colonial capitalism and centers the lives and insights of Black and Indigenous communities in Colombia. He identifies "dissident peace" as a potent alternative to dominant, state-centric peace frameworks—one based on evolving principles of autonomy and self-determination by marginalized communities. With vital implications for social movements globally, this book provides a gripping account of what it means to struggle today.

Anthony Dest is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, City University of New York.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.6.2025
Zusatzinfo 2 tables, 1 figure, 21 halftones, 1 map
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5036-4299-2 / 1503642992
ISBN-13 978-1-5036-4299-7 / 9781503642997
Zustand Neuware
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